CHINESE DREPANINAE 99 



CANUCHA Walker 

 (PI. 11, figs. 366-368 ; Text-figs. 188-199) 



Canncha Walker, 1866 : 1574. Type-species Canucha curvaria Walker, 1866 : 1574, by mono- 



typy. 

 Canucha Walker ; Gaede, 1931 : 40. 

 Campylopteryx Warren, 1902 : 340. Type-species Campylopteryx sublignata Warren, 1902 : 340, 



by monotypy. syn. n. 

 Campylopteryx Warren ; Gaede, 1931 : 40. 



This is a genus of six described species : curvaria Walker, 1866 : 1574, (Mysol Is. 

 New Guinea and the Solomons) ; sublignata Warren, 1902 : 340 (Buru, Amboina, 

 Watubela, New Guinea, Solomons) ; specularis Moore, 1879 : 407 (Ceylon, India, 

 China, Malaysia, Indonesia) ; miranda Warren, 1923 : 475 (N.E. India, Formosa); 

 bouvieri Oberthiir, 1916 : 272 (China) and duplexa Moore, 1865 : 816 (N.E. India, 

 Sikkim, Burma). The distribution is summarized in Table I. 



The affinities of Canucha are uncertain, but it is probably not taxonomically 

 distant from Drepana Schrank. 



A short account is given below of the species that occur in Formosa or China 

 {specularis, bouvieri and miranda) and of duplexa which is very closely allied to 

 bouvieri. 



The name ' depressa Warren ' was first published in 19 16 accompanying a figure in 

 Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde 10 : pi. 49, but was not then binominal. The 

 name was used again, this time in a binominal sense with Canucha, Seitz, 1934, 

 Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde 10 : 859, Druckfchlrr und Berichtigung, but the 

 name was not accompanied by a diagnosis, thus contravening Article 13 of the 

 International Code of Zoological Nomenclature, and therefore remains unavailable. 

 A female ' syntype ' of ' depressa ' from Rendova (Solomons), in the BM(NH), is 

 probably conspecific with the male holotype of curvaria. 



Canucha specularis (Moore) 

 (PI. 11, fig. 367 ; Text-figs. 196-199) 



Drepana specularis Moore, 1879 : 407. 



Drepana specularis Moore ; Moore, 1882 : 120. [Fig.] 



Canucha specularis (Moore) Warren, 1923 : 475. [Fig.] 



Canucha specularis (Moore) ; Gaede, 1931 : 40. 



Platypteryx obtruncata Warren, 1900 : 117. [Synonymized by Gaede, 1931.] 



The genitalia and the presence of well-developed subterminal spots on the fore 

 wing and of two closely apposed hyaline patches in the hind wing distinguish this 

 species from the closely related curvaria Walker. 



Distribution. Ceylon, India, China, Java, Sumatra, Borneo and Celebes. A 

 single male from Lofanshan (S. China) in the Museum Koenig, Bonn, is the only 

 known Chinese specimen : it may prove to represent a new subspecies of specxdaris. 



Types, specxdaris. The female type material (' Ceylon (Sir W. Gregory) ') may 

 be lost. No statement was given by Moore (1879) concerning the location of the 



